Dreampark, a provider of IPTV Middleware in the European market, together with its project collaborators, was awarded the Healthcare IT Prize for "Best Idea." The prize was presented at the Annual General Meeting and national conference of the Swedish Society of Medicine. In collaboration with other participants in the project, Dreampark has developed an IPTV solution that enables patients to communicate with their local care center via the "Nurse (Syster) Gudrun" interactive television channel.

The idea behind the solution is to free patients from the need to travel to the care center for a personal consultation. Via an IPTV set top box equipped with a web camera, people receiving care can see both themselves and the person to whom they are talking. Care center personnel can also see the patient and control and zoom in with the camera to get an impression of the patient's condition.

Bluestreak Network, Inc., has signed an agreement with one of China's leading IPTV equipment and service providers, Hansun Technologies. The deal will further expand Bluestreak's footprint in the Chinese television and digital multimedia market by bringing its MachBlue technology to additional operators, OEMs, and software developers.

Orca Interactive's IPTV middleware – RiGHTv has been deployed for the first IPTV service in Portugal by Clix, the mass market brand of Sonaecom, a major telecommunications provider.

Clix SmarTV will offer live broadcast television and radio channels, an electronic programming guide (EPG), video on demand (VOD) and subscription video on demand (SVOD). The service has been successfully deployed in the cities of Lisbon and Porto.

Orbit E-Commerce Inc.("OECI"), and PureNet.Tv Inc. ("PureNet"),
announced today the selection of Foundry Networks Inc. ("Foundry") to
supply its NetIron Multicast Routers for their recently announced IPTV
project in the Peoples Republic of China ("China").

mPhase Technologies and Accedo have formed an alliance to offer games with the mPhase TV+ System middleware. The companies will market the game packages to broadband operators as a pre-configured solution for interactive IPTV services.

The new Accedo Games packages will provide operators with a range of revenue-generating and differentiating games for the mPhase TV+ System.

mPhase Technologies will work with BitBand to integrate its Video On Demand technology with the mPhase TV+ System video entertainment middleware offer it markets to broadband operators as an integrated system to support interactive IPTV services.

The combined features will provide the network operators that mPhase serves with the ability to scale their Video On Demand offers as consumers discover the convenience of ordering entertainment on demand.

Espial IPTV has successfully completed an IPTV pilot deployment at UPC Sweden. UPC and its partners integrated and deployed Espial's Evo IPTV Service Platform, including the newly launched Evo Server, in less than four months from project initiation to commercial launch. UPC Sweden was recently integrated into Com Hem, the leading Swedish provider of Triple Play services with 1.7 million customers covering all of Sweden.

Orca Interactive will now market CodeBaby's IPTV Customer Care Solution as an enhancement of its RiGHTv open middleware platform for delivering and managing interactive TV services. Operators and service providers choosing Orca's RiGHTv solution can now include the interactive customer care and customer training capabilities to support IPTV end users efficiently and drive customer adoption of advanced, next generation IPTV applications and services, while reducing the need for customers to talk to live agents when they need support.

Ruckus Wireless announced today at TelcoTV that the company has joined Orca's Interactive partner program, the "Interactive Alliance." Orca is a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV. The combination of Ruckus' MediaFlex NG smart Wi-Fi system with Orca's RiGHTv middleware and service delivery platform for IPTV provides a certified, pre-tested and proven response to market demands for a new model of delivering IPTV services, and addresses the last 30 meters of the IPTV experience in the home.

NDS and Amino announced that the NDS Synamedia Metro middleware solution has been integrated into the AmiNET130 advanced IPTV platform. The integration of Synamedia Metro with the AmiNET130 provides telco operators with a second generation IPTV solution for a fast and economical deployment of next-generation IPTV services.

IPTV service provider Auroras Entertainment has added Espial's Evo IPTV Service
Platform as supported middleware for its IPTV service. Auroras will be
offering a complete end-to-end solution for telcos based on Espial's
pre-integrated solution that includes both Espial's market-leading Evo
Client and Espial's newly launched Evo Server.

Optibase Ltd. and SeaChange International will extend their product interoperability in support of IPTV services. Optibase will integrate its carrier-class media gateways with SeaChange's TV Platform, empowering Optibase's telco and hybrid network customers to deliver rich media over xDSL and other IP-based networks.

Concurrent and Nordija, a Danish developer of interactive applications for IP-based video services, announced that Nordija has selected Concurrent's MediaHawk 4000 video server for use in their Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) middleware platform. The Nordija middleware offers a TV portal that assists the viewer selecting channels and using other features such as video-on-demand, electronic program guides, network personal video recording, and personal channel mosaic. Both companies will be displaying their respective technologies at IBC 2006, Nordija in Hall 3, Stand #131 and Concurrent in Hall 4, booth #262.

With successful IPTV trials well underway and an impressive lineup of premier programmers committed, SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG), today announced it will integrate a middleware system powered by Myrio, a Siemens company, into its open IP-PRIMETM IPTV content distribution platform. The deal follows several months of joint testing and pre-integration work on the innovative IP television solution.